OpenWetWare

I think that one of my main goals this year will be to begin to understand this. It looks very interesting, and it involves things I always wanted to do.

Of course, the fact that in AP Biology we are going to be doing biohacking is helpful, because I'll be taught the basic foundations.

These things called 'BioBricks' I will also have to look into, because... pretend that DNA is an OS. Those things are basically aps, and the idea is that you can mix and match them. To get things like GFP-infused E. coli.

And really, the ability to do this sort of stuff is everybody's right. The idea of having corporations or individuals control genetic coding (except in the most extreme cases, like if there was a retrovirus that could be released into the air and caused blood to instantly clot throughout the body) is frankly disturbing, and I would take great joy in helping transcribe, and put into the public domain, the genetic sequences of organisms and traits.

Unfortunate, OpenWetWare is very... arcane.


In other news, I've learned how to drive, and have my license, but I have found that I hate driving.


So, non-grade related goals for school:

* Make a kinetic sculpture, with noble gases and electric arcs
* Learn biohacking
* Improve my ability in Spanish, start learning hieroglyphics
* Blow stuff up